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Interim Police Chief Renee Dominguez on Monday.
The gun was stashed beneath a nearby mop bucket. It was not inside an unzipped, drug-filled fanny pack.
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by | Sep 23, 2021 10:35 am | Comments (1)
(Updated) Police are investigating a report of gunshots fired early Thursday On Long Wharf.
by | Sep 13, 2021 8:11 am | Comments (30)
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Up to 500 new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
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A rendering of 27 apartments planned for Hemingway St.
A Long Wharf-based developer plans to build up to 500 new apartments along the underused waterfront in a bid to make good on the city’s long-sought redevelopment plans for the area.
by | Jul 27, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (11)
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Long Wharf’s Canal Dock Boathouse, and new proposed fee schedule (below.)
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City planners pushed the pause button on a proposed new fee schedule for the Canal Dock Boathouse after criticizing the resident-discount prices — up to $4,500 for a wedding, $500 to store a rowing shell, $1,000 to rent the Lanson Room — as too high for New Haveners to bear.
by | Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm | Comments (8)
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Eric Hummel, Carmen Rodriguez, MaryEllen Hummel McMahon, Elicker, William Hummel Jr. and John Hummel.
In 1933, German immigrant brothers William and Robert Hummel purchased a bankrupt sausage factory on New Haven’s Congress Avenue for $1,000. Using a special blend of spices they had refined from their time as apprentice sausage makers in Germany, they established the Hummel Brothers sausage factory.
Continue reading ‘88 Years Later, Hummels Keep Smoking The Dogs’
by | Jul 19, 2021 12:07 pm | Comments (7)
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Juan Salas-Romer (center) at 2016 ribbon cutting: Now the full owner of Village Suites property.
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Village Suites property.
A local landlord purchased full control of a 112-room extended stay hotel on Long Wharf, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
Continue reading ‘Real Estate Roundup: Village Suites All Sold’
by | Jul 12, 2021 9:44 am | Comments (2)
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Hernan Muralles, at right, seized chance for a convenient shot — then brought back his buddy David Briley.
New Haven’s vaccination ground game — finding ways to lure Covid-19 vaccination hold-outs to get shots, one by one — found 19 takers at the gas pump.
by | Jul 1, 2021 9:11 am | Comments (2)
The following release and these photos were sent in by a nonprofit looking for students to participate in summer and fall rowing programs on Long Wharf.
Crew Haven Corporation and Canal Dock Boathouse have partnered to create the Crew Haven Youth Rowing Program, a Sports Based Youth Development program that will bring competitive and recreational rowing, as well as academic after-school programming, to students in underrepresented communities in New Haven. The program, which launches this Fall, will be underwritten by Crew Haven Corporation (“CHC”) and operated by the Canal Dock Boathouse.
by | Jun 28, 2021 1:10 pm | Comments (1)
Charlie Widmer locked eyes with his wife in the front row.
“There is nothing for me but to love you and the way you look tonight,” crooned the trained operatic tenor. The song was Frank Sinatra’s “The Way You Look Tonight.” The soft accompaniment came from piano, saxophone, bass … and the squeals of seagulls on Long Wharf.
by | Jun 23, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (26)
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Solar nexus: Workers install panels on Hotel Marcel roof. Below: the new landscape.
Green history is being made on Long Wharf.
by | Jun 21, 2021 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Bobby Chambers collects plastics along the New Haven Harbor
”We’re trying to pick up the area and make it look nicer,” said Bobby Chambers, as he organized a clean-up Saturday on Long Wharf by New Haven Harbor .
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by | Jun 9, 2021 8:46 am | Comments (0)
Maria and Ndemeh.
Making a painstaking cup of coffee the traditional way while recounting a harrowing story of flight from Ethiopia into an unknown future. Family photographs lovingly thumbed through, even while the speaker mourns a sense of childhood lost. And dancing that invokes ancestors and reaches back into the past to both face trauma and draw strength.
Curated and produced by Jasmin Agosto and featuring Haben Maria, Colleen Ndemeh, Paul Bryant Hudson, Zvlu, Yexandra Diaz, and Ch’Varda, Yerba Bruja is part ceremony, part storytelling, part music, spoken word, and dance performance, and all honesty and respect, as the participants ruminate on what it means to leave home, lose home, and reconnect and stay resilient, in ways large and small.
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by | Jun 3, 2021 5:42 pm | Comments (10)
Boathouse (below); slab in dispute (above).
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Something is rotten — or at least cracking — outside the house of Canal Dock.
Continue reading ‘Cracking Concrete Sparks Boathouse Battle’
by | May 27, 2021 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Thanks to lucky timing, the lumber’s arriving at Tower Lane construction site, where Carlos Rivera (below) was hard at work this week.
The money’s still flowing to fuel New Haven’s building boom — but builders are scrambling to meet soaring lumber prices and find materials disappearing in a backed-up international supply chain.
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by | May 21, 2021 2:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Destinee Leiti, left, with Mer Rosario and Patty Giordano: It’ll take time, not a taco.
Flyer for Long Wharf clinic.
Seeking to convince holdouts to get vaccinated for Covid-19, New Haven is turning to cash — and fried tortillas.
Continue reading ‘Vaccine Lure: Taco (Or $10) With Your Shot’
by | May 3, 2021 9:21 am | Comments (2)
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Students Sindau picking up trash around Long Wharf Park.
Fifty middle and high school students descended on Long Wharf Park Sunday for a trash cleanup organized by 19-year-old Gabriela Garcia-Perez, a current first-year University of New Haven student.
by | Apr 30, 2021 4:03 pm | Comments (14)
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Tony Falcone’s “Fast Track” mural on Sports Haven outside wall.
A Queens builder has purchased the Sports Haven complex on Long Wharf for $6 million — and the betting money is on a long-term transformation of the oil drum-shaped gambling mecca and its asphalt sea of surface parking.
by | Apr 23, 2021 3:15 pm | Comments (3)
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New friends Jose Osorio and Raymond Brown at Village Suites.
Jose Osorio and Raymond Brown have found a new friendship in the Covid-19 pandemic — and in the process, New Haven and Connectcicut might have found a new model for addressing homelessness.
Continue reading ‘Hotel-To-Shelter: Can Idea Outlast Covid?’
by | Apr 22, 2021 11:03 am | Comments (1)
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Brazi’s head chef Jesse Melgar in the kitchen.
Over the last 28 years, Brazi’s Italian Restaurant, just down the walkway from Long Wharf Theatre, has played the role of host to such luminaries as Arthur Miller, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino, as well as Brian Dennehy and Amy Irving.
So it’s perhaps no wonder that, on a recent morning, head chef Jesse Melgar was at the industrial stove, adding a touch of Chardonnay to a skillet popping with chicken cutlets, red bliss potatoes, and cherry peppers, before theatrically tossing its contents as a flame gushed upward.
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by | Jan 4, 2021 6:10 pm | Comments (8)
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Board of Public Health Commissioner Darnell Young getting his city-administered vaccine last week.
New Haveners have a new place to get tested quick for Covid-19.
by | Nov 6, 2020 4:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Yale New Haven Health is bringing the first van in the U.S equipped with both 3D-mammography and breast ultrasound screening to the streets of New Haven.
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by | Oct 20, 2020 6:31 pm | Comments (4)
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Cornell Schott CEO Michael Taylor, YNHH CEO Marna Borgstrom, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, and Yale School of Medicine Dean Nancy Brown at Tuesday’s ribbon cutting.
The new primary care hub at 150 Sargent Dr.
Top administrators and clinicians from Yale New Haven Hospital, Fair Haven Community Health Care, and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center celebrated Monday the fruits of a years-in-the-making local healthcare partnership: The completion of a new “one-stop shop” primary care hub at 150 Sargent Dr. on Long Wharf.
Continue reading ‘Ribbon Cut On Long Wharf Primary Care Hub’
by | Oct 7, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
Lenny’s Fish Tale seafood restaurant on Long Wharf is the city’s latest Covid-19 business casualty.
by | Sep 30, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (15)
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Site of $50M hotel. Below: Developers, bankers prepare to toss dirt.
Bruce Redman Becker broke ground Wednesday on a roughly $50 million bet: That a new 165-room hotel at the iconic and long-vacant Pirelli Building will be able to attract lodgers, restaurant goers, and business visitors — even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the hospitality industry.
by | Sep 14, 2020 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Tong at Monday’s announcement on Long Wharf.
Connecticut’s attorney general is suing Exxon Mobil over climate change — and New Haven’s mayor says the city has a multi-million-dollar stake in the outcome.